Bacon Wrap Recipes

I always love the idea of my husband Lulu, who is a vegetarian, and me sharing an "almost" identical meal. It’s not always easy, but it’s worth the effort. For this recipe, first I prepared the meat version, wrapping turkey bacon over turkey breast. Then I repeated the same dish using fried tofu and Morningstar Farms brand vegan bacon. I stuffed both the turkey and tofu versions with slivers of a homemade Meyer lemon “citron confit.”

I mentioned last week that we have an abundance of fragrant Meyer lemons from our garden. I cooked up a storm using up all the lemons we had and I'll be sharing all the recipes with you in the coming days.

If you regularly follow my culinary journey, you'll know I often try to serve approximately the same dish to my husband Lulu, who is a vegetarian. I cooked chicken rolls for myself today, so for him I whipped up a mock bacon wrapped tofu equivalent dish with onion and mustard sauce. I used Morningstar Farms brand veggie bacon. I like the texture and the fact that it's soft before cooking. Otherwise, this dish would be impossible to make.

The result was surprisingly tasty. And of course, the vegetarian version is much healthier than the non-veg version. This recipe works equally well with meat, and I’ll post the chicken roll recipe soon. I accompanied it with steamed vegetables so Lulu and I shared (pretty much) the same meal!